Skill Defense

Defense improves your survivability by increasing your AC.

Classes

• Warrior (Max 252)
• Monk (Max 252)
• Rogue (Max 252)
• Paladin (Max 230)/ 252
• Shadow Knight (Max 230) / 252
• Bard (Max 252)
• Cleric (Max 200)
• Ranger (Max 200)
• Shaman (Max 200)
• Druid (Max 200)
• Enchanter (Max 145)
• Magician (Max 145)
• Necromancer (Max 145)
• Wizard (Max 145)

Class	Trainable	Cap Until 50	Cap Above 50	Feb 21, 2001	Oct 8, 2001
Warrior	Level 1	?	252
Monk	Level 1	?	252
Rogue	Level 1	?	252
Paladin	Level 9	?	230	252
Shadow Knight	Level 9	?	230	252
Bard	Level 1?	200	200	252
Ranger	Level 9	200	200		220
Cleric	Level 1	200	200
Shaman	Level 1	200	200
Druid	Level 1	200	200
Enchanter	Level 1	145	145
Magician	Level 1	145	145
Necromancer	Level 1	145	145
Wizard	Level 1	145	145

Defense Cap Per Level

For the cloth casters, it appeared for their Defense skill up to level 10:

Defense(max) = ((level x 4) + 5)

since my three casters had Defense = 45 at level 10. But from what I have gathered since a few have experienced into higher levels, the Defense skill drops to three points per level gain. That is, level 11 = 48, level 12 = 51, level 13 = 54, level 14 = 57. But since the maximum of all maximum is 145, three per level does not evenly divide into (145 - 45) = 100.

Anybody have any insight, especially at higher levels? Does it reach a point to dropping to two points per level, down to one?

Note: Necro: maxxed defense at 108 at level 31 tanking mobs with Banshee Aura just to see what it would cap at that level

So far, this is consistent with my experience as a cloth caster:

Level	Defense Cap
10	45
15	60
20	75
25	90
30	105
35	120

Skills